TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation
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@fuller1754 Yes, with two-finger swiping to the left. This is a single most annoying feature in Vivaldi that I could not figure out how to turn it off. Unchecking the mouse gestures in Settings did nothing to it. It's always on and would always inadvertently go back in history when trying to pan an inner panel during horizontal browsing. It would go back in history causing countless loss in unsaved work. It's the single poorly implemented feature of Vivaldi that prevented me from using Vivaldi as default browser.
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@hinchyman Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Baffling to me that in 2024 Vivaldi can't include such basic features. And they assume that because this specific topic doesn't have many upvotes, it means it isn't a desired feature. They won't even do something as basic as collecting telemetry to clearly see that laptop users quit using Vivaldi early because of the poor touchpad support.
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Yeah, I'd love to see 2 finger support. Just started using Vivaldi and a couple of things are pet peeves:
- 2 finger back
- Better integration with Apple autofilled passwords
Other than these 2, Vivaldi seems better in almost every way over Safari and Brave
Keep up the great work guys/girls
R
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hi there,
this is such a popular subject, that it even get discussed in reddit. however, I am using vivaldi for 2 years know and it performs in many aspects. using a touchpad for navigating back and forth is a one handed action. i have configured a shortcut for it, but when it comes to usability, swipe left and right on the trackpad is inrivaled. since navigating key when browsing the internet it is hard to understand, why the function is not available for vivaldi. please, explain and tell us how we can support the devs in implementing it.
peace
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@Slownicofish Thanks a lot! Good extension.
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it's crazy that such a basic functoinality is missing in 2025
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I would really like this feature, please...
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Please also include being able to swipe left and right across the screen for navigating forward and backward. This is a feature in Edge and it's kinda hard to use Vivaldi without the trackpad gestures or the touchscreen gestures backward and forward. This seems like a simple feature but with around 3 hours of using Vivaldi as a first time user, I have tried tho use both touchpad gestures and touchscreen gestures about 60+ times already. Thanks for considering it and I hope to see this feature implemented soon.
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@chriscochrun said in TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
Two finger TouchPad gesture for history back navigation and history forward navigation. Basically what the mouse gestures do but allow for two finger support to activate it instead of the alt key or right clicking.
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@chriscochrun said in TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
Two finger TouchPad gesture for history back navigation and history forward navigation. Basically what the mouse gestures do but allow for two finger support to activate it instead of the alt key or right clicking.
(mod edit: title)
need this badly
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I just noticed, the back gestures exist and are functional within the pwas or windowed shortcuts created with vivaldi. but not within the main browser window.
(right click an open tab, create shortcut (or install) then test the gestures there)
